Customer Reviews
Poorly written drivel - By: J. Mero, 15 Sep 2008 
If you should happen to like writers who tell you what to see, interspersed with soggy metaphors, then this book is for you.
The author hasn't even the most basic knowledge of how to tell a story, trying to create something (moods?) by selecting emotive adjectives to 'enhance' what he tries to describe.
Mark Crocker has obviously never heard about the first rule in creative writing: Show, don't tell.
Unfortunately there was none of Amazon's usual excerpts on this one, because that would have saved me buying this book that I never will be able to read, mostly because of the awkward use of language.
If this is 'Exquisitely written...the work of one of our most gifted & original nature writers' (BBC Wildlife), then nature writing in UK is in a sad decline.
The Crow Road - By: Big Jim, 13 Sep 2008 
Ever since I saw two crows (mother & father I presume) dive-bombing our cats who were near to their young fledgling who was taking his first "flight" from the nest in the tree at the back of our garden, I have been fascinated by their behaviour in particular & by the other crows in the neighbourhood in general. This has proven interesting indeed as the original crows' nest has been used again & again by presumably the same pair, who have raised more babies since the dive bombing incident. Their cawing in the morning has become our dawn chorus & whilst ostensibly a common occurrence, just by paying a bit more interest in these events has increased my enjoyment of our garden.
Now to this book. It is the latest in a recent line of excellent nature based books, which have extolled the hidden beauty of britain & the pleasure to be found in studying the apparently commonplace. This book especiallly scores because it charts a human journey & joy in an apparently bland landscape & quite frankly just wmakes you want to go out there & see these magnificent birds in action.
This book is shorter than some of it's peers & might have benefitted from some photographs or pictures, but I guess you can get these in any other bird guide so there you go.
a lovely book
